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Dr.. Vagaer&cp.
sPECIAbIsTs

We offer no apology for deyoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class of
Is too wretched to merit the sympathy and best
services of the profession to which we belong
as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who devotes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
phiIanthrophist and a benefactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician who by close APP
p~lication eXcels in any other branch of his pro-
iession. And, fortunately for humanity, the day
Is dawning when the false pnIiSnthrophy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law. to die uncared
for, has passed away
, 1887-10-11
SoM'N S\eGN Nj N,
Nights is the

thousands suffering from Asthma, Con-
sumption, Coughs, etc. Did you ever try
Aclker'1 English Remedy 1t is the best
preparation known Cor all Lung Troubles
sold on a positive guarantee at 10c., 60c.
DIR. w. N. HINT.
, 1887-10-11
still CHEAPER.

STILL
From this date RiHeT 81
johnson sUtU sell coal at a
reduction of 25 cents per
ton, making IL 1926, NOT
UtthSt landing the increase
of raHrO freight.
River g. JOIN son.
Cheyenne, Sept. 10, 1887
, 1887-10-11
MEN.

are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder, often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weakening
of the system in a manner the patient cannot
account for. On examining the urinary deposits
a ropy sediment Will often be found. and some.
times small particles OF albumen will appear, OF
changing to a dark and turbid appearance.
There are many men who die of this difficulty
ignorant of the cause, which Is the second stage
OF seminal weakness. DIR. Wagner will guaran-
tee a cure In all such cases and a healthy restora.
ton OF the genito-urinary organs, Consultation
free. Thorough examination and advice. So no.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Denver Daily News and Tribune Republi-
can.
, 1887-10-11
YOUNG MEN

Who may be- suffering from the effects OF youth
full follles or indiscretious, will do well to avail
themselves of this the greatest boon ever laid
ut the alter Of suffering humanity. DR.. WAC
NER VIII guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure,
, 1887-10-11

Courtesy of Hyo. Archive.
, 1887-10-11

Col. Luke Murrin chairman of the
board of the penitentiary commissioners,
was the recipient of the following com
.-.;,;o, SunJov avaninu.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
THE ENGLISH DETECTIVE.
How the Finest-in-the-Wo Arc
Trained to Run Down RascaIs.

The men who show special aptitude for
the works, says Blackwood's Magazine,
speaking of English detectives, are first
sent out and tested as patrols in plain
clothes afterward they are detached as
divisional detectives. Each of the di-
visions has its own detective constables,
the sergeants being always ON duty at
the central station. The Superinten-
dent or Inspector is in attendance from
9 to to receive applications for assist
ance and to issue orders. The duties of
the city detectives are especially difficult
and delicate. Now and again, of course,
they have to trace out the perpetrators
of a commonplace murderer or ordinary
burglary. But as rule they are
chiefly concerned with commercial
frauds, where the criminal is presume
bly, as quick-witted as themselves, and
has probably taken his precautions
against discovery. Generally he has al
ready made tracks and sought refuge in
foreign countries. He may have gone
where there is no eXtradition treaty ; but
as there are many disagreeables to be
met with among foreigners, whose man
ners he dislikes, and of whose language
he is ignorant, he more frequently takes
a passage for America or Australia. 1t
seems so easy to change your name, to
cast your skin, and lose yourself in a
now existence among a great English
speaking population.
Even in the former case, and beyond
the range of extradition treaties, the re-
fugee from justice is not altogether safe.
Should the detective follow him up and
find out, existence may be made I'M
pleasant or even intolerable. The agent
of the English law can stick to the fugi-
tive like his shadow, and by commune
eating with foreign cOnfreres, who ear
gerly lend assistance, can make any CON
tinental retreat uncOmmOnly hot. AS
matter of fuct, successful pursuit and III
innate capture are for the most part
mere questions of IN )ney. If motor
ious abscC udcr is not tracked and brought
back, it is generally because those who
have been robbed and wronged have
personal reasons for hushing mp the af-
fair At this moment there are city
gentlemen, once sufficiently notorious,
left to themselves and to their con
sciences in Spain and IN Sweden, whose
present addresses are as well known as
that of any respectable merchant i'll the
Post Office Directory. But i'll such cases
the police are powerless, unless private
enterprise sets them in motion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
ONLY FOR THE RICH.
What it Costs to Own and Run a
Steam Va chit.

In a recently published paper on
american Steam Yachting" E. S. Jaff:
ray, the owner of the steam yacht Stran-
| ger, gives in detail the cost of running
| the various classes of steam, pressure
boats. He estimates that a stea;n launch
from forty to my feet long, can be RIM
| for a season of five months for about
! 50, 500. The crew on such a craft would
consist of pilot, an engineer and a
deck hand, the first two receiving $50
a month each and the last $50. The
annual overhauling and the clothes for
the men would cost $3.50, the provisions
! $75 month, coal $75, and repairs and
sundries $50. With strict economy
steam vessels from seventy-five to 100
for from 81, 800 to S12, 000 while the
larger boats Will cost from the larger
sum named up to $20,0 A deduction
of the cost of fuel from these figures
brings one approximately near the eX-
pense of the wind-driven boats for sea-
son, always bearing in mind however,
that nothing is allowed for the enter
tainment of guests.
James Gordon Bennett probably de-
votes a greater sum to yachting than
any other American His steamer, the
Namouna, is in commission twelve
months in the year, and hardly week
passes when her cabin is not the scene
of some lavish entertainment The pay
roll of the crew of fifty men is said to
be 81, 500 a month, and it costs at least
81 500 a month to feed them.
The Atlanta is used by Jay Gould
daily during the season to transport him
from his country place at Irvington to
New York and return. He seldom uses
her for cruising, and more seldom has
guests aboard, and yet she makes q &c.
600 hole in his income every month.
What the Alva, which already repre-
sents half million of W. K. Wander
bits money, will cost to keep afoat is
still mystery, but it is not likely to be
less than $4,000 a month, since Mr..
Vanderbilt has already planned several
extensive cruises in her for large parties
of his friends.
The Nourmahal was less frequently
used last season than any of the big
steamers of the feet; yet it is said that
a check for $40, 900 with so good a name
as William Astor, her owner, at the bot
tom of it would not defray the expenses
incurred on her account Mr. Astor sci
dom appears at regattas or races, and is
not what would be called an enthusiasts
tic yachtman. He is member of the
New York Club, but seldom, if ever
goes to the club house.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
David Pingree's Land Speculation.

An Augusta, Me-, lumberman tells
the following story of Sam Smith, one
of the best lumbermen III the PenObscOt
region, forty years ago, and who knew
about all there was to be known of the
Maine forest Smith failed and was
left without a cent. He disappeared
soon after and for eight months was not
heard from. One day he appeared in
Bangor in a threadbare and ragged suit
of clothes, with an old white hat on his
head, and general air of depression.
There was big land sale that day in
which eleven townships, all heavily
wooded, were sold by the State. A pool
had been formed by a party of long
headed lumbermen to buy the land for
Il song. One of them suggested that
Sam Smith be invited to join the num-
Der, but the rest laughed at the idea of
taking a street loafer, what would be
called tramp nowadays, into their
counsels. The bidding began, all of
the offers being ridicrllously low. A
smile went round the company as Smith
lounged up and bid slightly above the
others. LET it 60" said the pool men,
she can't pay dollar The eleven
townships were accordingly knocked
down to him. But Sam soon showed
them that he had the best of the joke,
From an inside pocket of his old coat
he pulled out the S., 900 required to be
paid down and offered to pay more.
This put him on his feetagain. 1t after
ward transpired that Dave Pingree, Of
Salem, was backing him and they real
lied over 81, 900, goo on the lumber taken
off the 100000 acres in those eleven
townships.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16

"Then came the suit to sequestrate
his property, which we won. l then
sent Mr.. Hand to Asheyille, N. c.,
where he remained until the close of the
war. Of course, most Of his fortune
went into Confederate securities or cur
rency, and when the war ended there
was very little of it left. He went North
after the cessation of hostilities with
hardly enough money in his pocket to
pay travelling expenses, and, convinced
that all his means had been swallowed
up in the general ruin and wreck that
overw helmed the South, he left his af-
fairs IN my charge to get what [ could,
II anything, out of The wreck. Well,
the years rolled on and the South began
gradually to recuperate. I had invested
some portion of the funds of the firm
Judlclously. When the Burney crash
came, IN 1879, visited Mr.. Hand at his
home and told him that I felt bound to
make good his losses, as he was not
partner in that concern. There was no
talk of lawyers at all. I had my own
time to pay Mr.. Hand his money, and
about yeaE ago made him the last re-
mittance of the total amount of his for
trse, about 100000 That is the story,
and that is about all there is of it."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
JefersOn's Danger.

Ben: Perley Poore writes to the Bos
ton Budget as follows: Clark Mills, the
sculptor, used to narrate how Mr.. Bro
take q cast in plaster of the head Of
Thomas Jefferson. The family of the
ex-President were opposed to it, but he
finally consented, saying that he could
not find it in his heart to refuse a man
so triflng favor who had come so far
He was placed on his back ON a sofa, one
of his hands grasping a chair which
stood in front. Not dreaming of any
danger, his family could not bear to see
him with the plaster over his face, and
therefore were not present; and his
faithful Burwell was the only person be,
sides the artist in the room. There was
some defect in the arrangements made
to permit his breathing, and Mr.. Jeffer-
son came near suffocating. He was too
weak to rise or to relieve himself, and
his feeble struggles were unnoticed OF
unheeded by his Parrhasius.
The sufferer finally bethOught himself
of the chair on which his hand rested.
He raised it as far as he was able and
struck It on the floor. Burwell became
conscious of his situation and sprang
fnriously forward. The artist shattered
his cast in an instant The family now
reached the room and Browere looked
as if he thought their arrival most OPP
perfume, for though Burwell was sup
porting his master in his arms the fierce
glare of the African eye BODIED danger.
Browere was permitted to pick up his
fragments of plaster and carry them of,
bat whether he ever put them together
to represent features emaciated with
age and debility, and writhing in suffo-
cation, Mills did not know.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
4 Field for Work Under the Sea.

A writer in one of our contemporaries
suggests the development Of submarine
navigation as one of the works of the f1-
ture. He contrasts the amount of time
and thought which has been expended
upon the solution of the problem Of
flight with the little that has been done
in the other field Men have ever
shown themselves more anxious to rival
the birds than 10 cope with the element
of the fishes. Dedalus' flight from
Crete and the fatal melting of the wings
of Icarus, his fall aud death, are features
of one of the most famous legends of anti
guilty. But we do not read of Daedalus,
or any other inventor of his day, CON
structing Il submarine vessel. Yet I'M
der the waters all is peace, where on
the surface the floating ship is exposed
to the maximum wave action of the I'M
stable element. The character of unsta-
bility disappears from the ocean at II
small depth, and thirty or forty feet
down it is the type of constancy of con
ditions. The prediction is formally
made by the writer in question that IN
the future this mode of jOurneying will
be extensively INDUCED in. Then Jules
Verns work will read like a prophecy,
and twenty thousand leagues and many
times that, will annually be sailed I'M
der the sea. Such We're substantially the
conclusions of our writer. Whether
they will be verified or not must be left,
we fear, to future generations to see.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
A QUEENS ROMANCE.
How a Fall Down Stairs Brought a
Throne and Crown.

Among the presents which Emperor
| William received on his birthday one of
the most remarkable was a poem of
the Queen of Roumania. In hundred
short verses Carman Sylvia had described
! the chief incidents of the old soldiers
lifetime. She had, moreover, copied it
out herself in her own hand on white
parchment, beautifully ornamented with
cornfowers.
The career of this lady, who is as per-
feet scholar as she is true queen and
tender woman, is deeply interesting as
sketched by an authority. By birth
Elizabeth of Ros1nania is a princess of
the house of WED, and her father, man
Of high ability and careful culture, gave
her an education at once deeper and
freer than that which is usually the por-
ton of the children of royalty. The
death of a young brother clouded her
childhood, and, to dissipate the gloom,
she was sent to her aunt, the Grand
Duchess Helena, of Russia. From the
quiet studies of the castle of Neuwied,
she was thus suddenly transported to
one of the first salons of the brilliant
came with her fathers illness, and the
.'Wild Rosebud of Wied,' restored to
her native heath, watched in his sick
room and long mourned his death.
When there was no kingdom of
Roumania in existence she had laugh
ingly said: 81 do not want to marry
unless 1 can be the Queen of Rouman-
ia, and as so often happens the careless
thoughts of youth found their accom-
plishment. Running down the palace
stairs at Berlin one day her foot slipped
and she would probably have been killed
but for Prince Charles of Hohenzollern,
who saw her danger and caught her in
his outstretched arms. When Roumania
chose him for ruler he claimed the
princess as his bride. During the Rus
sia-Turkish war she wore the uniform of
the Red Cross, and as nurse helped to
soften and assuage the sufferings which
war inevitably brings in its train. At
the close of the struggle Plevna had Civ
en- a royal throne to the Prince and
Princess, and their crowns were made
out of cannon captured from the enemy.
The love and admiration of her subjects
she has always had, and their sympathy
also when the loss of an only daughter
brought desolation to her new home.
She has sought consolation in duty, III
earnest endeavor for the good of Rou-
mania and in those studies which inheri-
lance and education alike have made
dear to her.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
He was Buried Alive.

A horrible case of trance has occurred
at Ndesfa, in Russia, and, owing to the
position of the person, has caused con-
siderable sensation. Major Majuroff,
an artillery officer and Aide-de- Camp to
the Governor General of Odessa, aged
80, died, as was supposed, three weeks
ago, somewhat suddenly, and was in
tered forty hours afterward. His fun
eral was marked by much military pomp
and by the presence of all the civic and
military notables.
A few days ago, while the family vault
in the metropolis was being renovated
for the Russian F'cte des Morris, the coffin
lid was noticed to have been partly forced
open. 1t was Immediately removed, and
the body was found face downward.
The face was drcadfully lacerated, and
the flesh gnawed from the hands. The
corpse was still bleeding, which con
firms the statement of workman that
his attention was first attracted by a
noise in the coffin, and the unfortunate
Major died only on the instant of the
appalling discovery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
A MINE GUARDED FY SNAKES.
A Modern Munchausen's Story of a
Pursuit for Game.

A hunter, who has hunted and mined
from Arizona to the Yellowstone, and,
who is highly esteemed for truth and
veracity, was telling me that he had the
other day made a most wonderful dis
covery, says a Routi (Col) correspond
ent of the Denver Tribune, and that he
had seen gold that would put the United
States at discount.
He said that when he was on top of
one of the mountains he saw that at the
bottom of cliff he was peering over
the ground was smooth and clean, as
if deer or bear had been in the habit of
resting and summing themselves there
through the heat of the early spring
days.
Being anxious to get deer or have a
fight with a bear, he descended to the
foot of the cliff. Peering cautiously
around for game, he was somewhat
startled at hearing the rattle of snake.
Looking about he saw large numbers of
them lying around, while there was
constant stream of them going into a
round hole in the rock near the bottom
of the cliff.
Being anxious to destroy as many of
the reptiles as he possibly could, he pro-
cured a forked stick, and placing the
fork over the neck of the largest, he pin
toned him to the ground; then tying a
half-dozen sticks of giant powder to his
tail, set slow match to it and let the
snake go. After seeing his snakeship
go into his hole the hunter retreated to
a safe distance to watch developments.
He did not have long to wait. First
there was slight trembling of the
ground, then a burst that shook the
mountain like an earthquake, and with
that burst the whole side of the cliff
toppled off and fell to the ground, md
up went more snakes than was ever
thought of by either CULVER OF Baron
Munchausen,
The face of the rock was honeycombed
with round holes, out of which snakes
were pouring like wa ter through knot
hole as long as the hunter stayed, and
he stayed long enough to see many
thousand seething and kissing in their
rage and agony, when he became weary
and left; but not until he had seen that
the whole face of the cliff was covered
with solid gold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
A Base Ball Joke.

A joke on Manager Burnham, which
cost Briody 5000, leaked out this week
When the League met in New York
last March Manager Burnham told Pres
ident Newberger that he had Briody's
written agreement TO play in Indianapo-
lis the season Of 1887 for 81, 400, but that
owing to the citcher's cOrpulency he
didn't believe he wanted him. so at
New York Newburger said to Stearns;
Il understand You are going to sign
Briody for 81, 900 on the strength of last
years record. Now, [ think | can save
you some money
Glow so :" asked Stearus.
"Why, we have signed Briody for
81 400, sad don't want him.
Whereupon Sscarrs telegraphed to
Watkins: ''Siga Briody for $I,400
and no more" Br;ody fumed and
fretted u while, but finally signed for
81 400.
When the Detroit club reached here
this week BriOdy asked Newburger if he
had said ho had signed with IndiauOpo-
lis for 81 400. Nowburger responded
in the affirmative, ard referred HIN tc
Burnham for particulars. When they
got together the whole story came out,
\ fat rascal, afterward discovered to be
one Fisher, hal imposed himself on
Burnham, who ,ii'ln't know Briody, dur
ing the winter es the Kansas City
catcher. He was in need of ready cash,
and upon BurHl.;,m advancing him a
small loan. readily signed Briody's
name to contract st Burnham's own
figures, ami Shat is h3w BuInham is out
S13 50 and Briody $500. GIeeeIand
EkindoaLer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-06-16
FRIGHTENED ABOUT LEPROSY.
The Louisiana State Board of Health
Subdues a Panic in a Little
French Town.

/ At the request of the Mayor of st.
Martinsville, La, committee of the
/ Louisiana State Board of Health visited
that town last week to investigate a ru-
NOR of the prevalence there of Asiatic
! leprOsv. The rumor had caused panic
through all the neighboring country.
/ It was said that there were 200, 800,
/ even 600 cases, and that the disease was
! rapidly spreading. The farmers of the
neighborhood feared to go to St. Mar
/ tinsville to buy and sell, and the little
town, which called itself of old the
'tParis of Acadia, believed that its very
existence was threatened. Within the
town itself there was the same panicky
feeling in regard to the disease. People
refused to shake hands with one another
for fear of catching the leprosv, and men
would not go to the BARRIERS, fearing that
the razor might communicate the loath-
some malady. Every one suspected his
neighbor. One family in particular were
subjected to complete isolation, even
their relatives deserving them and point
ing them out as lepers.
st. Martinsville is a sleepy town of
some 5000 people, thoroughly French,
that language being almost universally
spoken, and the population consisting
mainly of the descendants of those Aca-
dams, immortalized by Longfellow in
''Evangeline, who wandered here from
Nova Scotia something over a century
ago. 1t has lived a quiet, uneventful
life, until from this quiet of years the
leprosy panic and the visit of the Board
of Health aroused it. Under the super
vision of President Holt council of fit
teen doctors thoroughly inspected each
of the cases brought before it. Every
one with pimple fastened forward to
make sure of himself. One of the worst
cases, which was supposed to be very
aggravated form of leprosy, proved to
be nothing but incipient boils. The re-
suit of the examination showed only
three cases of positive leprosy, the suf-
ferers being two married sisters and a
child of one of them. There were three
cases supposed to be incipient, and two
others were reported as having been
moved to a hospital in New Orleans. In
the whole town, therefore, but eight
cases could be found or heard of that
bore any resemblance whatever to lep-
rosy. An examination showed that all
the persons afflicted or suspected were
the descendants of lepcr who came to
the parish from st. Domingo many
years ago. The fact that they had lived
in close communication with their neigh
bors, and that the husbands of the wO-
men, who had been married for years,
were free from the disease, went to show
that it was not contagious, but heredi-
tary. The family, concerning whose
leprosy nobody entertained doubt,
proved to be absolutely free of the dis
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